By starting our tute by looking at what is currently making news, we were able to address such issues as Greece's current euro crisis (there was so much controversy on this issue in the media, all I learnt from investigating it was that I do not wish to be a financial journalist!) as well as the murder of Allison Baden-Clay. I found this murder very intriguing. The media held so much power in privileging who they believed the murderer is. I found this very clear in Today Tonight's coverage of the story as shown below:
I feel this story just further proved of the influence of a journalists opinion in a story. However, their opinion should never come without fact.
We reflected on ethics in journalism through acknowledging the late Kevin Carter's 1994 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a starving child during the Sudan Famine.
His photograph caused a lot of criticism by the public eye and Carter committed suicide three months after this photograph went viral.
This photograph left me speechless, it still does. This degree of pain, inhumanity and suffering should not have to be felt by any human being. This small child is being preyed on by a vulture -this is not a correct representation of the food chain by any means. This photo tells a story, it tells a story of the presence of starvation in third-world countries.
We also watched a documentary on Kevin Carter and how his photo failed to show compassion in accordance with the photojournalisms code of ethics. The video is shown below:
It is a powerful clip that I feel shows the death of man who had a real passion for photography. The world needs more people like Kevin Carter to show of the disgrace of humanity in such country as Sudan.
In this tutorial, we conducted an activity in which we were given seven news articles that we had to decide upon their outlet, the presence of news values and the possible presence of new news values. I worked with Sally for this activity and we came up with a wide selection of new news values that we felt were important in the current news climate. One that stood out to both of us was 'terrorism'. Ever since the 9/11 terrorist attack, the salience associated with possible further terrorist attacks or terrorist attempts has proven vital in agenda setting.
Along with terrorism, we felt 'health' and 'reigion' were also two very influential news values that deserved recognition by theorists.
I enjoyed this tutorial, it has transformed the way in which I interpret and understand news in conjunction with the values of the news.
We also watched a documentary on Kevin Carter and how his photo failed to show compassion in accordance with the photojournalisms code of ethics. The video is shown below:
In this tutorial, we conducted an activity in which we were given seven news articles that we had to decide upon their outlet, the presence of news values and the possible presence of new news values. I worked with Sally for this activity and we came up with a wide selection of new news values that we felt were important in the current news climate. One that stood out to both of us was 'terrorism'. Ever since the 9/11 terrorist attack, the salience associated with possible further terrorist attacks or terrorist attempts has proven vital in agenda setting.
Along with terrorism, we felt 'health' and 'reigion' were also two very influential news values that deserved recognition by theorists.
I enjoyed this tutorial, it has transformed the way in which I interpret and understand news in conjunction with the values of the news.
15.05.2012
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